The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

Holy smokes the quotes here are deranged. He's pro-housing and pro-immigration but people on here are fantasizing about executing him because they can't read

Like nobody is talking about how mark kelly needs a primary lol, i wonder why that might be

This is the actual divide, more broadly. It's not liberal/leftist, it's "do you know what time it is and are you willing to act like it?" People want fighters. And there are variations on that theme across the left spectrum.

That is very literally true, it unraveled most swiftly under Khrushchev and Gorbachev because they tried to make Communism work with less pucker factor and it turns out that communism didn't transform Russia in *that* way.

this was a really great conversation with @buddyyakov.bsky.social. one of my favorite lines: "stagnation didn't kill the ussr. reform did."

Neon Liberalism #57: It's time to look back at the first Cold War and try to understand why America won—and, more importantly, why the USSR lost. Samantha and guest Yakov Feygin talk about the fundamental story of Soviet economic success, stagnation, and ultimate implosion.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

This is not actually true in the UK. Here you still have to apologise for being white to me, personally.

it used to be they wouldn't even let you drive a car without apologizing for being white. or cross the street. or buy a phone. but today? now i bought a milk and when i didn't apologize for being white everyone Clapped. thank you mr trump🫡

i grew up in MB (its own kind of bubble nightmare) but living in San Gabriel where literally every home is kinda an aging shitbox exterior with a brand new tesla out side was like getting kicked in the head by a donkey every day

"that's the cup of a carpenter"

What this really is, is “I came to this angry because of the Big Account that wanted me to be angry about it, and then I looked at it and the reason I was angry was wrong, but I’m still angry so there has to be some way to justify it.” Very common on here.

Yes, it’s entirely true that many of the migrants who came under the Biden admin did not have housing arranged for them when they arrived and so ended up in homeless shelters at first, at times for months, while they got on their feet. This is 100% true, not an anti-immigrant gotcha, just the facts.

The number of times I’ve been annoyed at needing to add a citation for something I thought was obvious and then found out I had remembered it backwards and needed to say the opposite is pretty funny

Then you need the other asset Republicans have: endless radicalized rich liberals willing to give millions to liberal Rod Drehers & Theo Vons instead of university endowments or Amy McGrath. Which is one potential I think @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com at least gestures at in her woke PMC framing.

yeah basically you can't really use the site for anything remotely to do with ai unless you're an extremophile. there's a reason why most of the people who talk about ai the most are Combat Posters, anyone who does not thrive on conflict simply stops bothering to post at some point

vance’s personal communication style is to behave like a preening, belligerent oaf in order to impress two 14 year old boys in one of the most racist group chats in history

If you got the right names and organizations behind it and worked with ActBlue to figure out small dollar fundraising, I think you might be able to speedrun building a new paper of record

this increasingly seems like the thousand-dollar bill that's just lying on the sidewalk

tbh i think “build a party media apparatus” goes a long way since it at least lets you achieve a level of perpetual mobilization among part of your base and also communicate to electeds what the red meat of the day should be

Anyway their plan to "fix" this is denaturalization, & when that inevitably fails because these people are fucking innumerate, they're going to try to steal elections, & then they will learn just how limited the power of the American government is without the support of the American people

The nominally leftist harassment gangs openly crowing how they’ve tanked this site’s growth by abusing anyone who isn’t a part of their little cult. Maybe ban these people!

How can you hate your country so much?

Side note: the thing I found most frustrating about reading Jane Jacobs, back when I wasn't as hostile to her as I am now, was that she never cited anything, and just said things like "Manchester underwent import replacement in the 1840s" and expected me to know this and not want to read more.

yeah and I mean the thing, and I know not everyone agrees with this, but the thing I believe about this is that if you are unwilling to commit to/try to engage in genuine intellectual work in college, you aren't actually earning the credential.

Yes!! It's so hard to teach students that every thought you have has to be a choice you can defend or retract It has to be the case that you never turn it off. Otherwise very smart people turn into cranks

appreciate this post about the technocratic libs' confused messaging: "it would be like Coca-Cola commercials saying 'but Pepsi is pretty good too.'" substack.com/home/post/p-...

I really wish more people understood the importance of what this thread is about.

committing fourth generation warfare (posting)

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people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

My, "I am not smart enough to game out the 12-dimensional chess game (and neither are you) so I just do things I think are good and right" stance is looking better all the time.

Y’know, i was expecting it to be bad, but i was not expecting to be “man who wrote article calling for blood of surrogacy providers, gender care surgeons, and pornographers conducts adult board sponsored purge of blood and soil nazis”

yes my ideas seem to be leading labour into a near-existential crisis but it doesn’t count because in my preferred scenario the government is also presiding over rapid and widely distributed growth and obviously under such conditions only my bespoke grievances refashioned as policies could succeed

exhibit N of why I do not uncritically support all unions and despise people who use union support as a purity test

I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

As I’ve said before, politics in New York City don’t fall along traditional partisan lines, they fall along the divide of inner boroughs and outer boroughs and the outer boroughs think they’re the only real New Yorkers. They all also have clearly melted their brains on the Internet.

i mean this is the point i am constantly making. people want to live in an economy where *their* labor is in high demand, but *other people's* labor is in low demand. this is because people really like *service*--not just goods that substitute for service, but service by another human

"Talking to them is like talking at a chatbot: whether they're friendly to you or outright rude, there is no hope in the world of actually influencing or engaging with them in a meaningful way, and they will mostly say the same thing regardless of environment."

“The nature of the drug terrorist threat does not neatly fit into the classic definitions or manifestations of armed conflict, which ordinarily involves some sort of armed attack with military weapons.” The argument amounts to “the president can kill who he likes if he calls them terrorists”

Paul and Tate getting their brains turned to mashed potatoes the moment they stepped in the ring with somebody in the same weight class who isn't afraid to punch back feels like God flashing a big red warning sign to our country.

Like I've said before there's a small gaggle of FGOs who get it, but the GOFOs are completely out to lunch and sleepwalking the institution into a world where DoD regularly pulls sub 50% positivity ratings regardless of who's in the WH, and hoo boy is the institution not going to like that world

i cannot escape the sense that what these people are fundamentally opposed to is political leadership

striking i think that yglesias' response to being criticized on facts and policy is "well but it doesn't poll well in R+1 electoral districts." polling is important. sure. but it's not actually a good barometer of what's true lmao

Talking, doing, and believing all being compressed into the same thing online has some weird effects on who is allowed to hold themselves out as a thing. Like who can consider the selves a leftist, or a social justice advocate. But also things like who counts as a coder, a maker or a chef.